How does an asteroid differ from a comet?

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How does an asteroid differ from a comet?

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An asteroid, more or less, is a big rock. They’re made of different materials but it’s primarily rocky.

Comets come from further reaches of the solar system, and they’re made primarily of ice. They have tails because that’s their material being blasted away as they whoosh by the sun.

Asteroid = giant boulder. Comet = giant dirty ice cube.

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